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The Breakroom: School Policing, Swearing In Atlanta Traffic, International View Of American Food
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The Breakroom gang joins host Celeste Headlee to weigh in on the week's news. The panel includes Robbie Medwed of the Southern Jewish Resource Network for Gender and Sexual Diversity, writer Nicki Salcedo of Decaturish.com, reporter HB Cho of the Korean Daily, & Georgia Pol editor Stefan Turkheimer.
BREAKROOM TOPICS:
1. A video has gone viral that shows a police officer picking up a 12-year-old girl and throwing her down on a brick sidewalk. The officer has been suspended, pending investigation. He’s a member of the San Antonio Independent School District Police Department. The officers receive the same training as regular police officers, but should there be different training for officers that are working on school campuses?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT3--1s0NUE
2. A new novel suggests that the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, was more than consensual. It describes the relationship as romantic, despite the fact that Hemings was a teenager and Jefferson in her 40s when he began having sex with her and, of course, he kept her enslaved for her entire life. But it’s a novel, so should we take exception to it or assume the writer is just using artistic license?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn8wXkjTQU0
3. A new report may make you think twice about sending your child to daycare. The Economic Policy Institute compares the annual cost of daycare with in-state tuition at a four-year public college in Georgia. According to the report, the annual cost of educating a child under the age of five is a little more than a $1,000 higher. Is preschool too expensive or have we succeeded in making college really affordable?
4. A Brit posted a picture of the “American Food” section in his grocery store. On the shelves? Lucky Charms, grits, Twinkies, corn syrup and Hershey’s syrup. Obviously, the UK thinks we’re all fat and eat horribly. But what foods would you put in the American food section?
5. The newest line of cop cars are camouflaged. They use a “no profile” light bar design, so those police lights on the roof of the vehicles may be a thing of the past. But is it worth the investment to try and catch speeders? Federal studies have found that drivers going 10 to 15 miles above the limit have very low accident rates. Those who travel 20 to 25 miles per hour faster are pretty much on par, in terms of car accident rates, when compared to drivers following speed limits. The drivers that cause the most accidents are those traveling 10 or more under the speed limit and those that travel at 30 or more.
6. MARTA and five other regional transit agencies have teamed up on a social media campaign to make you laugh and encourage you to take public transit. One of the videos features an elderly woman bragging about all of the curse words she has picked up while driving in Atlanta. Do you swear in traffic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ythws0qtxxU
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